"The guys who are working on it, I saw their work and said, 'Wow! These guys are special.' And it is. It's going to be pretty special, from what I've seen so far.

"And I haven't seen much, but it's pretty special. They're super-talented. And just working with them in the brief time that we did on my stuff, I've been in a bunch of these different situations, and these guys have their ducks in a row.

"And they're collaborative. They know what they want and they're clear, they've got all their sequences and their animatics, but you come up at them with a creative idea and they shift, they do it nimbly and with great execution."

While he could've easily given 'this is the first Spider film starring Miles Morales' as his reasoning, it's nice to see an actor really geeking out about the artform of animation.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is pencilled in for a release later this year.